You Don’t Know Jack – play addictive trivia game!

You Don’t know Jack is a fun and engaging game-show style game that is available on just about every gaming platform already and now, most notably, on Android. The game is a multi-player, real-time general knowledge quiz with highly interactive questions, crisp voice over and excellent in-game graphics. It’s also addictive, fast-paced and challenging. If you like quizzes and game shows, you’ll be all over this!

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Awesome visuals!

Great sound effects and v/o!

Always lots of players!

Challenging!

Great casual game, new content daily!

Cons

Very US-centric (though you might prefer that).

Features:

You Don’t Know Jack is a engrossing quiz game where you answer general knowledge questions on a variety of topics real-time against other online players. The topics are incredibly diverse and the nature of the questions make it slightly off the wall, requiring a little abstract thought. For example, one question goes:

Put these things in order of how much time they take from SHORTEST to LONGEST: a successful rodeo bull ride, a Vine video, how long it takes Nic Cage’s car thief character to steal a car…

So as you can see, you need quite a widespread knowledge of a number of topics and the ability to think in abstract terms quite quickly. Most questions require cultural and intellectual links to be made with a variety of genre; from history and art to politics, entertainment and sports. Now, as a Brit, I did find many of the cultural references more than a bit US-centric and while this made the game much harder and reliant on guess work, if you’re from the US I’m sure it helps.

The gameplay is wrapped in extremely high production values with superbly crisp graphics and visuals, in addition to excellent sound and professional voice overs. The quizzes update on a daily basis meaning you always have new stuff to do. You get one game for free to play every day but you can pay for further turns using in-app currency which is earned, but you can always pay real money for more. Additionally, there are several ‘helps’ and bonus items you can use in the game, so it really mixes up and each game is very different from the last.

The game has a massive social element to it which means you can play against Facebook friends. I didn’t go for this personally, but I’ve noticed that it is kind of a big deal and lots of people do.

You Don’t Know Jack – Intro

You Don’t Know Jack – Random abstract questions

You Don’t Know Jack – Awesome graphics as rounds progress

You Don’t Know Jack – Answer to the above question

You Don’t Know Jack – New round

You Don’t Know Jack – 5th isn’t great but it was only my second go

You Don’t Know Jack – Play again

You Don’t Know Jack – New free episode

You Don’t Know Jack – Occasional add or offer

You Don’t Know Jack – Various rounds which require different skills

Fun Factor:

If you like general knowledge quizzes, or if you’re perhaps a game show fan, this will be right up your street. It’s fun, tactile, easy to play and very engaging.

Addictive:

I found each game to be very fast-paced and ‘in your face’ for the few minutes each runs for. I’m generally a more gentle quizzer and so have been finding the daily quiz more than enough, and very enjoyable. Therefore, I’d certainly say it’s addictive, but not in a way that you can’t put it down, more like you look forward to the daily loud burst of quizziness.

Graphics:

The graphics are immaculately polished and professionally done. When I first played the game, I thought it was an actual quiz show that had been made into a game, rather than the other way around.

Accelerometer, Vibration & Sound:

The sound, as has already been deliberated, is fantastic. Not only is their music and sound effects but the questions and mid-round puns are all professionally voiced.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

(4.8 out of 5)

Should you Download You Don’t Know Jack? If you like puzzles and quizzes, especially general knowledge, this is a great (and free) Android game to enjoy and get addicted to. The brash style might be a little too noisy for some (it’s odd to have someone virtually shouting a question about Julius Cesar at you), but it’s nevertheless great fun. Definitely check it out.